Re: any strategy change in a tourney with this blind structure?
Good question. Just not playing it is one choice I've been making at Casino AZ, which runs 100+ person tournies, stacks starting at 40BB and quadrupling in two hours. I'd like to play them, and need to come up with a better strategy myself.
Your tourney is slightly deeper, and slightly slower escalating, but I think our problems are similar. My thoughts are that you need to find opportunities to fold opponents out of good pots with big all-in re-raises, and you should slow play some big hands. Your problem is that the blinds are going to take solid play out pretty quickly and reduce it to an all-in fest, so you need to take risks to double up before then. You should target tight players at your table (if any) for the all ins, and LAG's for the slow plays.
Not much of a theory, but I'm pretty sure tight solid play is a recipe for being blinded down in these tournies. And I think it's better to be knocked out in 15 minutes so you can play the ring games, than to limp around for three hours.
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